Donald Trump's State Department announced Monday night that it would not impose additional sanctions on Russia because existing sanctions are already "serving as a deterrent."

Monday was the deadline for Trump to impose such sanctions under a law that was passed overwhelmingly by Congress, and the refusal to do so only served to confirm that Trump cannot be trusted to deal with Russia's attack on our democracy.

As Mnuchin was trying to explain his department's lazy use of a Forbes magazine article in an official report, Brown cut him off.

"When are you going to take those sanctions off the shelf, and use them in terms of cybersecurity, in terms of intelligence, in terms of American elections?" Brown demanded.

"Um, there is a substantial amount of work that was done, I look forward to you reviewing the classified report, we will be doing, based upon that, we will be looking at taking appropriate action," Mnuchin said.

"Time is ticking," Brown replied.

He noted that the sanctions bill passed Congress almost unanimously: 98-2 in the Senate, and only 3 no votes in the House.

"Theres a lot of belief on both sides of the aisle  I hear senators talking privately about this  that this Congress and the American people dont trust the president on Russia, his closeness to Putin, all those things, and your delay on this, your slow-walk [of] this just enforces that, he said.

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